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Chaos in Islamic State Camps in Syria
Syria’s Post-Assad Pulse Check
Alexander McKeever
,
Hassan Hassan
,
Aaron Y. Zelin
,
Lina Khatib
, and
Steven Cook
Flashpoints and Fighting in Syria
Attack in Syria Kills U.S. Soldiers
Israel’s Ongoing Fights in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank
Syrian Government Struggles with Relations with the Kurds
Joseph Wehmeyer
Challenges and Opportunities for Syria
Joseph Wehmeyer
The Terrorism Threat in Plain Sight: Islamic State Prisons in Syria
Grace Parcover
Israel, Syria, and the Complicated History of “Responsibility to Protect”
Joseph Wehmeyer
The Islamic State Prison Camps in Syria are a Powder Keg
Julie Chernov Hwang
and
Colin Clarke
Israel, the Syrian Druze, and the Ghosts of the “Responsibility to Protect”
Daniel Chardell
Sectarian Violence and Israeli Strikes in Syria
Joseph Wehmeyer
Progress for Syria?
Abigail Taylor
Syria’s New Transitional Government
Joseph Wehmeyer
The March Massacres Show That Syria Urgently Needs Solutions, Not Sanctions
Rob Geist Pinfold
Syria Steps Toward Peace
Madeline Field
A New Syria?
Madeline Field
Russia Tries to Salvage Its Military and Political Interests in Syria
Madeline Field
In Brief: A New Syrian Government’s Regional Relationships
Anna Jacobs
,
Giorgio Cafiero
,
Aaron Zelin
,
Nick Danforth
, and
Caroline Rose
In Syria, America Should Be Ruthlessly Focused on the Islamic State
Joseph L. Votel
and
Elizabeth Dent
The Multiple Dimensions of Turkey’s Approach to Syria and the Kurds
Madeline Field
What’s Next in Syria?
Christopher Preble
,
Zack Cooper
, and
Melanie Marlowe
In Brief: What’s Next for ISIL in Syria?
Karen M. Sudkamp
,
Aaron Zelin
,
Jeremy Hodge
, and
Wyatt Thielen
The U.S. Military Mission in Syria
Abigail Taylor
Russia’s Woes in Syria: The Consequences of Assad’s Fall for Russian Ambitions
Abigail Taylor
Rebels Gain Ground in Syria
Abigail Taylor
Understanding the Syrian Civil War: A Guide From War on the Rocks
Abigail Taylor
How Syria Broke Turkey
Erin O'Brien
Israel Steps Up Strikes in Syria
Erin O'Brien
How Syria Broke Turkey
Nate Schenkkan
Assad’s Party Wins “Sham” Elections in Syria
Erin O'Brien
U.S. Troops in Syria Are Critical For Multiple Missions: Keep Them On
James F. Jeffrey
Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State
Thanassis Cambanis
U.S. Debates How to Withdraw From Syria
Aaron Stein
U.S. Air Force Downs Turkish Drone Over Syria
Aaron Stein
Clashes in Eastern Syria
Aaron Stein
Protests Among Syria’s Druze
Aaron Stein
Russia Holds Syria Aid Hostage
Aaron Stein
Syria Reinstated in Arab League
Aaron Stein
Suicide Drone Kills U.S. Contractor in Syria
Aaron Stein
A Catastrophic Earthquake in Syria
Aaron Stein
A New Path For Syria’s Kurds
Asli Aydintasbas
and
Julien Barnes-Dacey
Ukraine’s Consequences Are Finally Spreading to Syria
Mona Yacoubian
Turkey’s Russian Red Light in Syria
Sam Heller
Russia Convenes Direct Talks Between Turkish and Syrian governments in Moscow
Aaron Stein
The Islamic State is Cautiously Optimistic about a New Turkish Operation in Syria
Charlie Winter
The Kremlin in Command, Part II: Syria and the First Assault on Ukraine
Lawrence Freedman
,
Michael Kofman
, and
Ryan Evans
Islamic State Leader Killed in Syria
Shane Mason
Lights On in Lebanon: Limiting the Fallout from U.S. Sanctions on Syria
Sam Heller
Ending America’s Diplomacy-Last Syria Policy
Adham Sahloul
There’s Still a War Going on in Syria
Shane Mason
The American Deconfliction Disadvantage: Ankara’s Drone Campaign in Syria and Iraq
Aaron Stein
Syria, Airpower, and the Future of Great-Power War
Aaron Stein
and
Ryan Fishel
The United Nations Votes on Syria’s Future
Tre Hester
Redefining Victory in America’s War Against the Islamic State in Syria
Sam Heller
In Syria, Put Humanitarian Aid Ahead of a Political Solution
Daphne McCurdy
and
Charles Thépaut
What Are America’s Sanctions on Syria Good For?
Sam Heller
Will More Syria Sanctions Hurt the Very Civilians They Aim to Protect?
Basma Alloush
and
Alex Simon
Leak Reveals Jihadists’ Weakening Grip in Syria’s Idlib
Sam Heller
What Syria Ought to Teach America About Competition with Russia
Aaron Stein
Has Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Opened the Door for an Islamic State Comeback?
Dareen Khalifa
and
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Syria, Turkey, and the Battle for Idlib
Tre Hester
What America Can Learn From its Mistakes in Syria
Daphne McCurdy
On the Syria Debate, Reductio ad Trumpium Gets us Nowhere
Jeremy Shapiro
and
Aaron Stein
The Sense in Syria’s Senselessness
Sam Heller
,
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
,
Ryan Evans
, and
Nick Danforth
Lost in the Furor Over Syria: Alliances are a Means, not an End
Doug Bandow
and
Christopher Preble
U.S. Officials Ignored Trump on Syria and We Are All Paying the Price
Aaron Stein
Will Displaced Syrians Ever Return? History Says No.
Kara Ross Camarena
and
Nils Hägerdal
Turkey’s Military Operation into Northeast Syria: Status and Domestic Drivers
Bobby Valentine
Revisiting Iraq in the Shadow of Syria
Joshua Rovner
Trump Endorses Turkish Operation to Engage Kurdish Forces in Syria: Some U.S. Troops Withdrawn
Bobby Valentine
Syria: A Sad Tale
Tom Karako
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
U.S. Congressional Syria Study Group Report: Conclusions
Bobby Valentine
Syrian Government’s Assertive Offensive in Idlib and the New ‘Safezone’
Bobby Valentine
The Crisis is Coming: Syria and the End of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance
Aaron Stein
Syrian Air Raids on the Last Opposition-Held City of Idlib
Bobby Valentine
The Terrible Case for Staying in Syria
Benjamin H. Friedman
and
Justin Logan
The Syrians Don’t and Won’t Toe the Iranian Line: Explaining a Most Curious Alliance
Kamal Alam
U.S.-Backed Forces Attack Final ISIS Stronghold in Syria
Bobby Valentine
French Jihadists Held in Syria: Repatriation?
Bobby Valentine
How Should the West Play a Weak Hand in Syria Reconstruction?
Alexander Decina
Trump’s Syria Pullout Plan Cannot Win Turkey Back
Merve Tahiroglu
and
Aykan Erdemir
America’s Almost Withdrawal from Syria
Aaron Stein
Israel Conducted Rare Daytime Air Strikes in Syria
Bobby Valentine
Kissinger’s Prophecy Fulfilled in Syria
Kamal Alam
U.S. Plans Full and Rapid Withdrawal From Syria
Bobby Valentine
Turkey Threatens Military Incursion Into Kurdish Syria
Bobby Valentine
‘Frogs’ and ‘Geckos’: Syria’s Jihadists Speak the Language of Rebellion
Sam Heller
Russian Recon Plane Shot Down in Syria. Upgrades Coming
Bobby Valentine
Prisoners of Idlib: Turkey, Russia, America and the Fate of Syria’s Last Opposition Stronghold
Aaron Stein
The Urgency of Idlib: The Impending Regime Offensive and the Delicate Balance in Syria’s Northwest
Charles Lister
Assad Drives into Syria’s Southwest, Part II: The Opposition and Beyond
Ryan Evans
As Assad Closes In, a Birthplace of Syria’s Uprising Gains New Importance
Rodger Shanahan
Assad Drives into Syria’s Southwest, Part I
Ryan Evans
What Does Assad’s Southwestern Offensive Mean for the Future of Syria?
Michael P. Dempsey
The Roadmap to Nowhere: Manbij, Turkey, and America’s Dilemma in Syria
Aaron Stein
As Assad Turns to Syria’s Southwest, Washington Faces a Choice
Sam Heller
Confrontation at the OPCW: How Will the International Community Handle Syria and Skripal?
John Hart
What’s the Matter in Manbij? How an Obscure Syrian Town Could Determine the Future of the U.S.-Turkish Alliance and What to Do About It
Aaron Stein
Syria Strikes: The Politics of Legality and Legitimacy
Manuel Lafont Rapnouil
WOTR Podcast: Strikes on Syria: The View From Paris
Usha Sahay
and
Bruno Tertrais
The Reputational Effects of the Syria Strikes
Jason Fritz
The Legality of the Syria Strikes
Jason Fritz
The ‘Adults in the Room’ Need to Take Trump Seriously on Syria
Aaron Stein
#NoImpunity: Will the Newest International Effort to Stop Chemical Attacks in Syria Succeed?
Gregory D. Koblentz
Israel’s Deepening Involvement with Syria’s Rebels
Elizabeth Tsurkov
Mission Accomplished? What’s Next for Iran’s Afghan Fighters in Syria
Ahmad Shuja Jamal
What Can the United States Really Accomplish in Syria?
Jason Fritz
America in Search of an Un-Geneva for Syria
Sam Heller
Russia’s Annual Withdrawal from Syria
Jason Fritz
Why is Turkey Silent on Russia’s Cooperation with the Syrian Kurds?
Gönül Tol
Syrian Kurds after ISIS
Jason Fritz
The (Last) King of Syria: The Feudalization of Assad’s Rule
Nick Grinstead
What an Unfolding Humanitarian Disaster in a U.S.-Protected Enclave Tells Us About American Strategy in Syria
Sam Heller
A Small-Time U.S. Mission in Syria is a Dangerous Idea
Faysal Itani
Syria Is Sliding Towards Partition
Alexander Bick
Turkey’s Idlib Incursion and the HTS Question: Understanding the Long Game in Syria
Charles Lister
Not-So-Soft Power: Russia’s Military Police in Syria
Mark Galeotti
Northern Syria’s Anti-Islamic State Coalition Has an Arab Problem
Daniel Wilkofsky
and
Khalid Fatah
Self-Defense and Strategic Direction in the Skies Over Syria
Ryan Fishel
and
Aaron Stein
A Deadly Delusion: Were Syria’s Rebels Ever Going to Defeat the Jihadists?
Sam Heller
In Syria, Turkey Left Holding the Bag
Ryan Evans
Making Sense of Turkey’s Syria Strategy: A ‘Turkish Tragedy’ In the Making
Burak Kadercan
Trump and Covert Operations in Syria: A Not-So-Artful Deal?
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
The Post-Caliphate Gauntlet in Eastern Syria
Noah Bonsey
The Signal in Syria’s Noise
Sam Heller
The Trouble with Tanf: Tactics Driving Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
How to Get Away with Mass Murder: Denying Mass Atrocities in Sri Lanka and Syria
Kate Cronin-Furman
When It Comes to Syria and the Kurds, Erdogan Will Leave Washington Empty-Handed
Aaron Stein
Echoes of the Past: Syria, Chemical Weapons, and Civilian Targeting
Luke O’Brien
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Finding Leverage in Syria
Aaron Stein
No Plan? No Strategy? No Problem! Syria and Why Trump’s Russia Policy Is Off to a Rough Start
Michael Kofman
Syria: A Journey into the Unknown
Michael Hanna
and
Sam Heller
The Al-Shayrat Strikes and Escalation Control in Syria
Noel Anderson
Trump’s Attack on Syria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ryan Evans
De-Conflicting Turkish, Kurdish, and American Aims in Syria
Aaron Stein
In Syria, Turkey Finds Itself Boxed In: What’s Next?
Aaron Stein
and
Rao Komar
What A Syrian Neighborhood Can Teach Us About the Talks to End the Civil War
Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
and
Daniel Wilkofsky
America’s Central Syria Strategy Problem
Rodger Shanahan
What Trump Should Seek in Syria Negotiations
Ilan Goldenberg
and
Nicholas A. Heras
Everything Old is New Again: Espionage and Stratagems in Ancient Iraq and Syria
Rose Mary Sheldon
This Won’t Look Like Winning: A Sensible Path for Trump’s Syria Policy
Sam Heller
The Stage is Set for an Escalation: The Meaning of Syria’s Attack on Turkish Forces
Can Kasapoglu
The Syrian Civil War and Avoiding Trump’s First Big Mistake
Michael Hanna
Will Turkey Present Trump with a Fait Accompli in Syria?
Aaron Stein
Turkey’s Syria Intervention: No Guarantee of Easy Victory at al-Bab
Rao Komar
The Perplexing Problems of Solving Syria
Steven A. Cook
The Misadventures of Russia and the United States in Syria: Complete Strategy Implosion Edition
Michael Kofman
What’s Really At Stake in the Syria Debate
Marc Lynch
A Plan for Winding Down the Syrian Civil War: Surge, Freeze, and Enforce
Charles Lister
Turkey’s Kurdish Red Line in Syria and the Fight Against ISIL
Denise Natali
This is How Turkey’s Incursion into Syria Could Get Bogged Down
Aaron Stein
Decisive Military Defections in Syria: A Case of Wishful Thinking
Rashad al Kattan
The Decay of the Syrian Regime is Much Worse Than You Think
Tobias Schneider
Top Cover for American Troops in Syria: A De Facto No-Fly Zone?
Ralph S. Clem
“Assad or We Burn the Country”: Misreading Sectarianism and the Regime in Syria
Emile Hokayem
Want to Build a Better Proxy in Syria? Lessons from Tibet
Steve Ferenzi
Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
Cyrus Malik
What if a U.S.-Russian Deal in Syria Goes Exactly as Planned?
Faysal Itani
The Logic for (Shoddy) U.S. Covert Action in Syria
Austin Carson
and
Michael Poznansky
Five Reasons Why Cooperating with Moscow on Syria is a Bad Idea
Rep. Michael G. Waltz
and
Lorianne Woodrow Moss
Russia is in Charge in Syria: How Moscow Took Control of the Battlefield and Negotiating Table
Sam Heller
Speaking Nonsense to Power: Misadventures in Dissent Over Syria
Jeremy Shapiro
Fear and Loathing in the Levant: Turkey Changes its Syria Policy and Strategy
Aaron Stein
How Ahrar al-Sham Has Come to Define the Kaleidoscope of the Syrian Civil War
Sam Heller
Beyond Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State’s HR Files Illuminate Dangerous Trends
Clint Watts
Revisiting Train-and-Equip in Syria to Clear the Manbij Pocket
Andrea Taylor
and
Aaron Stein
Levantine Labyrinth: Preparing for Subterranean Warfare in Iraq and Syria
Walter Haydock
Is the Islamic State Trying to Draw Turkey into Syria?
S.G. Grimaldi
and
Selim Koru
How Al Qaeda is Winning in Syria
Yasir Abbas
Syria Hasn’t Degraded Deterrence and Nonproliferation Regimes
Al Mauroni
The Tangled Web of the Syrian Jihad
Sam Heller
Syria’s Toxic War: Chemical Weapons Are Undermining Deterrence and Nonproliferation
Rebecca Hersman
Taking the Fight to “ISILstan”: Displacing and Replacing ISIL in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
Moscow’s Mercenaries in Syria
Mark Galeotti
The Syrian Civil War and the End of Turkey’s Liberal Dream
Selim Koru
Are CIA-backed Syrian Rebels Really Fighting Pentagon-backed Syrian Rebels?
Sam Heller
The Three Faces of Russian Spetsnaz in Syria
Mark Galeotti
There is No Russian Withdrawal from Syria
Dmitry Gorenburg
and
Michael Kofman
Syria and the Credible Commitments of World Powers
Justin Conrad
The Promise and Peril of Changing U.S. Strategy in Syria
Aaron Stein
High Time for Intervention: The United States Must Invest in Its Partners to Turn Syria Around
Dov Friedman
The Russian Quagmire in Syria and Other Washington Fairy Tales
Michael Kofman
After the Geneva Talks: Re-Setting U.S. Strategy for Western Syria
Ilan Goldenberg
,
Nicholas A. Heras
, and
Paul Scharre
The Syria Ceasefire Plan is a Sign of the Decaying World Order
Sen. John McCain
Prospects for a Turkish Incursion into Syria
Can Kasapoglu
A Cause For All Turks: Turkey and Syria’s Turkmen Rebels
Sam Heller
and
S.G. Grimaldi
Deja Vu? Debating a U.S. Intervention in Syria in 1919
Michael S. Neiberg
Dayton’s Lessons for Syria
Stefano Recchia
Walker at Reuters: Preventing World War III in Syria between Turkey and Russia
Ryan Evans
Why the U.S. Should Be Paying Attention to Russia’s Latest Strikes in Syria
Michael Kofman
Let the Russians Bleed in Syria While We Focus on Containing Jihadists
Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
The Russian Intervention in Syria: Policy Options and Exit Strategies
Michael Kofman
A New Plan for the United States in Syria
Ben Jonsson
Russia’s Arsenal in Syria: What Do We Know?
Michael Kofman
Russia’s Counterterrorism Gamble in Syria and the Caucasus
Elena Pokalova
Why Israel Should Be Worried About Russia’s Role in Syria
Nadav Pollak
The State of Russian Strategy: Ukraine, Syria, and Beyond
Dmitry Gorenburg
and
Ryan Evans
How Russia’s Gambit in Syria Changes the Game
Michael Kofman
How to Lose a Civil War: Lessons for Afghanistan and Syria
James T. Quinlivan
Turkey’s Syria Strategy: All About Domestic Politics?
Mustafa Gurbuz
The Trouble with Turkey’s Favorite Syrian Islamists
Sam Heller
and
Aaron Stein
Why the New Syrian Army Failed: Washington and Unconventional Warfare
David Maxwell
Like It or Not, a Solution in Syria Is the Only Way to Defeat ISIL
Omar Al-Nidawi
and
Adam Tiffen
Are Turkey and Saudi Arabia Going to War in Syria?
Aaron Stein
PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria
JM Berger
,
William McCants
,
Denise Natali
, and
Douglas A. Ollivant
A Collapsing Regional Order: Turkey’s Troubles in Iraq and Syria
Aaron Stein
The Origins of Turkey’s Buffer Zone in Syria
Aaron Stein
Sen. Corker: Monday Morning Quarterbacking Syria
Timothy Hoyt
Iraq, Syria, and the Islamic State: A Matter of Control
Adam Elkus
and
Nick Prime
The Tomb that Could Drag Turkey into the Syrian Civil War
Chase Winter
McCants at Brookings: ISIS Fantasies of an Apocalyptic Showdown in Northern Syria
William McCants
Training the Syrian Opposition: So, What’s The Plan?
Melissa Dalton
To Defeat ISIL, Empower Sunni Iraqis and Syrians
Paul Scharre
Iraq, Syria, and ISIL: Americans don’t want BS, but do they want leadership?
Bryan McGrath
Don’t BS the American People About Iraq, Syria, and ISIL
Brian Fishman
The Dangerous Nexus Between Radicalism in Britain and Syria’s Foreign Fighters
Roger Farhat
6 Strategies for Syria and Iraq
Timothy Hoyt
From Magdeburg to Mosul: Iraq, Syria, and the 30 Years War
Marc Tyrrell
Infographic: Visualizing ISIS Violence in Iraq and Syria
William Kammerer
and
Corina Simonelli
Extremism and Syria’s Internally Displaced
Karen Leigh
and
Nathaniel Rosenblatt
Mehdi Nemmouche and Syria: Europe’s Foreign Fighter Problem
Raffaello Pantucci
State of Jihad: The Reality of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
Douglas A. Ollivant
and
Brian Fishman
(W)Archives: An Al Qaeda Strategist’s Lessons for the U.S. in Syria
Brian Fishman
Saudi-Qatari Convergence and Divergence on Iran and Syria
Thomas Lynch
Hard Evidence That Obama Has Started Arming Syrian Rebels?
Jack Mulcaire
How Does Iran View the Syrian Conflict?
Chris Looney
Intervention in Syria and the Myth of the “Exit Strategy”
Thomas M. Nichols
A Reasonable Hope? Just Intervention in Syria Requires More than Good Intentions
Peter Munson
The Syrian Civil War: Political and Military State of Play
Charles Lister
and
William McCants
“Thanks, Obama”: Presidential Culpability for the Syrian Civil War?
Peter Munson
Inside Baseball on Syrian Rebel Infighting
Aaron Y. Zelin
Sectarian Conflicts: Looking Back from Syria to Europe’s Age of Religious War
Mark Konnert
Let Iran Own its Syria Policies
Afshon Ostovar
Abstracting War, from Afghanistan to Syria
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Regaining Control of the [Rebel] Financing Agenda in Syria
Tom Keatinge
PODCAST: Counter-Terrorism, Drones, Syria, & More
William McCants
,
JM Berger
, and
Clint Watts
Syrian Refugees & Why Realists Are The Real Ethicists
Ryan Evans
ISIS’ Plan to Govern Syria – And What the US Should Do About It
Nathaniel Rosenblatt
Stopping Syrian WMD Attacks
Ryan Evans
On Buzzfeed and Syria
Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Beware of Mission Creep in Syria
Mark Stout
Who’s pulling the strings on Syria?
J. Michael Barrett
Another Way: The Syria Speech the President Should Give
Mark Stout
Syria, Signaling, and Operation Infinite Reach
Usha Sahay
Congress on Syria: Down the Same Road Once Again
Peter Munson
Our Options in Syria: The Trouble with No-Fly Zones
John T. Kuehn
The attack America deserves, but not the attack Syria needs
Ryan Evans
An Attack on Syria: Probably Unlawful; Possibly Justifiable
Phillip Carter
Obama’s Birthday Gift to McCain: War with Syria
John Thorne
PODCAST: Syria, Secrets, and Some Snark
Ryan Evans
Attacking Syria, Realism, and Magical Realism
Michael Noonan
Reactions to Looming US Attack on Syria
John Amble
Things to remember before going to war in Syria
Ryan Evans
Canada’s Syria Problem
John Amble
Preparing to handle Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Al Mauroni
In Search of an End-State for Syria, or Not
Timothy Hoyt
Dempsey’s Options on Syria: But what is the end-state?
Ryan Evans
To Intervene or Not Intervene in Syria? The Limits of Power Define Interests
Jason Fritz
Las Vegas rules don’t apply in Syria
Ryan Evans
Revolutions are a Tricky Thing: Syria Edition
Mark Stout
Indecision on Syria and Europe May Undermine America’s Asia Pivot
Sean Kay
Talks, Plans, and Prison Breaks
WOTR Staff
Iran and the Gulf: Why Hedging Is No Longer Enough
Bader Al-Saif
and
Sanam Vakil
Breaking Tehran’s Grip on Baghdad
Keith Phillips
and
Stewart Welch
China Now Finds Itself in al-Qaeda’s Crosshairs
Colin Clarke
and
Lucas Webber
Recalibrating U.S. Intelligence Strategy for an Uncertain Global Order
Alexander Bick
and
Philip Potter
Does Guaranteeing Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge Still Serve U.S. Interests?
Rob Geist Pinfold
Is the Age of Drones Really the Age of Poor Maneuver?
Antonio Salinas
and
Jason P. LeVay
Skipping to the Endgame on the Iran Strategy
Richard Nephew
The Middle East’s Westphalian Moment? From Chaos to Realism
Ali Murat Kursun
Turkey’s Drone Industry at a Strategic Crossroads
Doga Eralp
Protests, Seizures, and Exercises
WOTR Staff
What Thucydides Really Thought About Technology and War
Bret Devereaux
Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans?
Alexandra Gerber
Key Elements of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
Matt Vallone
,
Steven Wills
,
Katherine Kuzminski
, and
Max Bergmann
U.S. Foreign Policy Surprises in 2025
Emma Ashford
,
Britta Crandall
,
H. A. Hellyer
,
Oriana Skylar Mastro
, and
Joshua Shifrinson
Talks Continue, Violence Persists
WOTR Staff
The U.S.-Saudi Reconfiguration Is Real and It No Longer Depends on Israel
H. A. Hellyer
Confrontations and Coalitions
WOTR Staff
The Mighty Middle Powers
Tim Sweijs
Attacking Drug Boats: Bending or Breaking the Law?
Geoffrey Corn
and
Ken Watkin
The 2025 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
WOTR Staff
A Historic Resolution, an Unworkable Plan: The Uncertain Future of Gaza’s New Mandate
Jonathan Lincoln
The Day After: What Successful Regime Change in Venezuela Would Really Take
Orlando J. Pérez
Saudi Nuclear Posture After the 12-Day War
Ellie Geranmayeh
,
Cinzia Bianco
, and
Camille Lons
Deals, Droughts, and Demands
WOTR Staff
Venezuela’s Foreign Relations Under Maduro and After
Imdat Oner
and
Lana Shehadeh
Racing Against Time: Realizing a True Defense Industrial Enterprise
Gen. (ret.) CQ Brown, Jr.
The Global Reach of the War in Ukraine
Sergey Radchenko
,
Jonathan Corrado
,
Hanna Notte
,
Eric Watkins
, and
Christopher Hernandez-Roy
The 12 Days of War That Didn’t Ignite the Middle East or the World
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel
Janice Stein
,
Gabriel Mitchell
,
Jonathan Lincoln
,
Zaha Hassan
, and
Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud
Sanctions, Speeches, and Showmanship
WOTR Staff
New Agreements Among Adversaries and Allies
WOTR Staff
Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa
Hanna Notte
Summits, Sanctions, and a Parade
WOTR Staff
Unintended Recipients: The Dangers of Loose Weapons
Kerry Chávez
and
Ori Swed
Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War
Mariya Y. Omelicheva
Rivals, Raids, and Rhetoric
WOTR Staff
Moscow’s Mercenary Makeover in Africa
Raphael Parens
Gutting U.S. Government Humanitarianism Makes the Defense Department’s Job Harder
Michael C. Loftus
Deadlines and Deadlock
WOTR Staff
The Marine Corps Americans Want Can’t Be Derailed by a Fake Crisis
Ryan Evans
Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
Jordan Spector
Iran’s Axis of Resistance Is Fracturing
Hamidreza Azizi
The State of Russian Influence in the Middle East
Anna Borshchevskaya
,
Yevgeniya Gaber
,
Nicole Grajewski
,
Giorgio Cafiero
, and
Daniel Rakov
Calling Out Russia: France’s Shift on Public Attribution
Quentin Jalabert
,
Damien Van Puyvelde
, and
Thomas Maguire
The Secret Peace in Turkey: How Aging Leaders Are Ending a War
Ahmed Hamza
and
Afolabi Toye
Rising Lion, Midnight Hammer, and the Global Response
WOTR Staff
In a Changing Middle East, What Role Do Iran’s Partners Play?
Maria Fantappie
,
Gregory Johnsen
,
Laila Ballout
, and
Erik Skare
We Need a Marine Corps, Part III: A Corps Recentered
Ben Connable
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Israeli-Iranian War
Joshua Rovner
We Need a Marine Corps, Part II: A Corps Confounded
Ben Connable
Revisiting the Implications of Iran’s Long-Range Weapons Capabilities
Jim Lamson
Flirting with the Brink
WOTR Staff
Flailing State: The Resurgence of al-Shabaab in Somalia
Ashley Jackson
Results from Trump’s Visit to the Middle East
Kerry Boyd Anderson
,
Anna Jacobs
, and
Giorgio Cafiero
Red Lines and Reckonings
WOTR Staff
The Ides of November: Navigating the Shifting Sands of Iraq’s 2025 Electoral Landscape
Inna Rudolf
and
Douglas A. Ollivant
Deals, Schemes, and Plots
WOTR Staff
For Saudi Arabia, Normalization with Israel Doesn’t Make Sense Now
H. A. Hellyer
The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory
Frederic Wehrey
and
Andrew Bonney
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Getting to Critical Mass in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Nicholas Miller
The Adversarial: Talks and Tariffs
WOTR Staff
Erdoğan’s Last Great Gamble
Ryan Gingeras
How the Biden Administration Won Tactically but Failed Strategically in the Red Sea
Joshua Tallis
The Trump Administration Is on the Clock to Decide Whether Operation Inherent Resolve Should End
Anders Streubel-Kristensen
and
David Vestenskov
In Brief: How Öcalan’s Call to Disarm the PKK Will Affect the Middle East
Gönül Tol
,
Aron Lund
,
Denise Natali
, and
Alex Vatanka
The Adversarial: Relations and Realignments
WOTR Staff
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Walker D. Mills
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and
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Jenny Holzer
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Emily Parrish
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and
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and
Jake Shatzer
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and
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‘Blue Homeland’ and the Irredentist Future of Turkish Foreign Policy
Aykan Erdemir
and
Philip Kowalski
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Stephen Tankel
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Brian J. Lunday
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Matthew J. Robbins
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
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,
Nathan Fleischaker
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Howard J. Shatz
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Richard Gowan
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John V. Bowlus
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Aaron Stein
and
Robert Hamilton
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Francis J. Gavin
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David Shullman
, and
Dan McCormick
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Jalel Harchaoui
Sacrifice and Security: A Pandemic’s Lessons on Building ‘Consent’ as an Element of Strategy
Gregory A. Daddis
and
Paul L. Miles
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Berkay Mandıracı
and
Nigar Göksel
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Zack Cooper
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David Adesnik
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Steve Blank
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Beth Van Schaack
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,
Janusz Bugajski
,
Ray Wojcik
, and
Carsten Schmiedl
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and
Sharan Grewal
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Galen Jackson
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and
Luc Sasseville
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Philip H. Gordon
The Pandemic and America’s Response to Future Bioweapons
Andrea Howard
Preparing for War in the Fog of Peace: The Transatlantic Case
Jordan Becker
and
Robert Bell
America’s Afghan Mission Has Been Overtaken by Pandemic
Martin Skold
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and
Jeremy Shapiro
Aftershocks: The Coronavirus Pandemic and the New World Disorder
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and
Ariana Berengaut
When Systems Fail: What Pandemics and Cyberspace Tell Us About the Future of National Security
Benjamin Jensen
Don’t Forget the Historical Context of Russo-Turkish Competition
Jeffrey Mankoff
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and
Sam Heller
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John Raine
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and
Jacob Ware
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
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Erin Simpson
Drones, Deniability, and Disinformation: Warfare in Libya and the New International Disorder
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Strategy as Appetite Suppressant
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and
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Washington’s F-35 Embargo Against Turkey — Success or Failure?
Ray Rounds
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Olli Pekka Suorsa
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Jens Ringsmose
and
Sten Rynning
Hydrocarbon Diplomacy: Turkey’s Gambit Might Yet Pay a Peace Dividend
Burcu Ozcelik
Iraq Still Might Force the United States Out
Sajad Jiyad
America Shouldn’t Abandon Its Allies in the Sahel
Olivier-Rémy Bel
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Alexandra Stark
Lebanon: Turning Protests into Power
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A Roadmap for Better Choices from Security Partners
Tommy Ross
and
Melissa Dalton
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Shimon Arad
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Liam Collins
,
Kristen G. DeCaires
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Jacob N. Shapiro
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Ozlem Kayhan Pusane
A Guide to Getting Real on Iran
Aaron Stein
The Conventional Wisdom on China’s Island Bases Is Dangerously Wrong
Gregory Poling
On the Current Confrontation with Iran
Robert Jervis
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Dylan Maguire
Burying and Unburying History: American Strategy in a Faulknerian World
Bruce Jentleson
How Boko Haram Has Regained the Initiative and What Nigeria Should Do to Stop It
Nathaniel Allen
Insurgency, not War, Is China’s Most Likely Course of Action
John Vrolyk
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Kim Kagan
,
Mara Karlin
,
Dana Stroul
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
India’s New Security Order
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Why Russian Military Expenditure Is Much Higher Than Commonly Understood (As Is China’s)
Michael Kofman
and
Richard Connolly
Santa’s Classified National Security Gift List for 2019
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
AI Safety: Charting out the High Road
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The History that Happened: Setting the Record Straight on the Armenian Genocide
Ryan Gingeras
How to Stabilize Ukraine Long Term? Securitize Well-Being
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,
Ralph Clem
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Erik Herron
The Firing Line
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Daniel Byman
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Caliph Abu Unknown: Succession and Legitimacy in the Islamic State
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and
Craig Whiteside
The Long Shadow of the Gulf War
Rebecca Friedman Lissner
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Jim Goldgeier
The Sword and the Swastika: How a Medieval Warlord Became a Fascist Icon
Iskander Rehman
The Moscow School of Hard Knocks: Key Pillars of Russian Strategy
Michael Kofman
With Your Shield or On It
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
Erin Simpson
Refugees at Risk: Managing the European Union’s Declining Power in Turkey
Christina Bache
An American Resolution on Armenian Genocide Wrangles with History
Edward J. Erickson
Revisiting the Vietnam War at Home — And What It Means for Today
David Barno
and
Nora Bensahel
Hypersonic Weapons: Tactical Uses and Strategic Goals
Alan Cummings
The (Four) Stars and the State: Civil-Military Affairs in 2019
Risa Brooks
,
Peter Feaver
,
Jim Golby
,
Alice Hunt Friend
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Ryan Evans
A State with Four Armies: How to Deal with the Case of Iraq
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Erwin van Veen
NATO North? Building a Role for NATO in the Arctic
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It’s (Barely) Daylight in America
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Radha Iyengar
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Strategy and Exit Strategies: Essential or Misleading?
Claude Berube
,
Melanie Marlowe
, and
Christopher Preble
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Just Say No: The Pentagon Needs to Drop the Distractions and Move Great Power Competition Beyond Lip Service
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Turkey and Russia: A Remarkable Rapprochement
Michael A. Reynolds
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
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Erin Simpson
The Lost Art of Exiting a War
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When Are Exit Strategies Viable?
David Kampf
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Adam Weinstein
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Jacob Ware
Rhinestone-Covered Icons at “Russia’s Los Alamos”
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Ehud Eiran
and
Aviad Rubin
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Cyber War as an Intelligence Contest
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How to Fix a Broken Special Operations Culture
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and
Michael P. Brill
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and
Erwin van Veen
Anticipating a New Russian Military Doctrine in 2020: What it Might Contain and Why it Matters
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Coercive Disclosure: Israel’s Weaponization of Intelligence
Ofek Riemer
and
Daniel Sobelman
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Curtis McGiffin
Maximum Pressure Is Failing: Fact-Checking Pompeo on Iran
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Polina Beliakova
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Christopher Dougherty
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Rick Berger
,
Bryan McGrath
, and
Christopher Preble
Shapes, Part II: The Shape of Strategy
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Whether it Likes It or Not, Europe is Being Pushed and Pulled into America’s Iran Policy
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Russian AI-Enabled Combat: Coming to a City Near You?
Margarita Konaev
and
Samuel Bendett
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Zachary Abuza
Stop Bombing Dirt: Resolving a Decade of Failed Aerial ISR Management
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No, President George W. Bush Did Not Undermine American Power and International Order
Peter Feaver
and
William Inboden
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and
Nora Bensahel
The Tale of Turkey and the Patriots
Jim Townsend
and
Rachel Ellehuus
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,
Loren DeJonge Schulman
,
Radha Iyengar
, and
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Saeid Golkar
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Chris Yeazel
Featherweight Airlift: For Want of a Nail
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and
Jeremy Renken
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On Will and War
Douglas A. Ollivant
A ‘Responsibility to Prepare’: A Strategy for Presidential Leadership on the Security Risks of Climate Change
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Francesco Femia
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John Conger
Espionage and the Catholic Church from the Cold War to the Present
Aaron Bateman
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Gen. David L. Goldfein
,
Stephen Bressett
,
Lynn Haack
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Amos Yadlin
and
Ari Heistein
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Douglas A. Ollivant
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Erica Gaston
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Aaron Stein
‘Hard Choices’ and Strategic Insolvency: Where the National Defense Strategy Falls Short
Rick Berger
and
Mackenzie Eaglen
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Anand Toprani
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Gordon Emmanuel
and
Justin Gray
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Rachel Stohl
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Mike Pietrucha
and
Jeremy Renken
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Jordan Chandler Hirsch
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Sam Mullins
The Turkish Navy in an Era of Great Power Competition
Ryan Gingeras
The Hidden Costs of Strategy by Special Operations
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The Dual-Track Approach: A Long-Term Strategy for a Post-INF Treaty World
John D. Maurer
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Back to the Future: The Return of Violent Far-Right Terrorism in the Age of Lone Wolves
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Trump Cancels Drone Strike Civilian Casualty Report: Does It Matter?
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Tommy Ross
and
Philip McDaniel
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,
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,
Usha Sahay
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Ryan Evans
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and
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Elizabeth Saunders
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Ryan Evans
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, and
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,
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Elana DeLozier
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and
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